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The Daily News from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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The Daily Newsi
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Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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HtmtiMdan and Obituaries Mrs, Enid Bell Angel Dawn Grouse Mt 9i mid sell, wldew of the lite nr, R. sell of West Maf ket Street, Mount 13ft, died fit 6838 Friday May 24, 1814, at her She had fceeft ill the past two weeks, Pult obituary will Appear in Monday's issue, funeral services are being handled by the Heath funeral home in Mount Union. 6, Louise Whitsel Mfs, Louise Whltsel, Three Sprihgs, R.C., died at today, Saturday, May 28, 1074, ia the Blair Memorial Hospital, A complete obituary and eral arrangements will be announced Monday. Smith Rites Puheral services for Barbara E. Smith of Mount Union, who died Thursday in the Hershey Medical -Center, will be held at, 2 p.m.

Sunday, May 26, front; the Heath funeral home in Mount Union. The Rev. Kenneth- Reed will officiate and interment will be made in the Mount UnionlOOF Cemetery. Friends, may call at the funeral home until 9 p.m tonight and from 9 a.m until time for services on Sunday. Angel Dawn Grouse, infant daughter of Francis and panala CfOUSe, Mount Union, died at jr.

Blair Memorial Hospital, at 3ji6 fhurs. day, May 23,1674, was born at Hi30 Thursday, May 2Sj 1974, at Mount Vfilon, and taken to the hospital where she sed atfay, In addition to her parents, she is survived by her nal grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, John Hancock, Mount Ufa ion, her maternal great, grandfather, Tone Hancock, of Mount Uftlon the matern. al great-grandmother, Mrs, An, na McCartney, Mount union, the paternal grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, Charles Grouse, Mount Union; the paternal great grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, Paul Rogers, Saxton and the ternal great Rosa Grouse, Shlrleysburg, R.D. Graveside services were held this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at St.

Catherine's Ce. metery, conducted by Rev. Father Paul Thomas, State High Court Asked For Ruling Chauncey Piper Chauncey Jerome Piper, formerly of Shade Gap, died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 1974 at the'home of his daughter Mrs. 'Stanley Nolan of 35 East Franklin Street, Topton.

His death unexpected. He was 95 old. He was'born a son to John iind Mary (Laird) Piper, April 'i, 1819 in Huntingdon County, fce was married to Julia C.Starr 'ot Shade alley, November 6, at the St Mary's Catholic jChWch in Shade Gap, R.D., by Rev. Fr. James Tolan.

Surviving are Three daugh- Mrs. Willard (Mary Ag. Vohn of Shade Gap, R.D., Stanley (Margaret) No. of Topton and Mrs. Henry Lihnenkohl of Daton, tjbhio He had' 18 grandchild- and 9 great-grandchil- His" wife preceded him in tfdeath on August 1 16, 1970.

One is also deceased. He was a member of the Mary's Catholic Church in The deceased was employed as a rural Mail Carrier until retirement. Requiem Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 27, at the St. Mary's Catholic Church in R.

the Rev. Fr. Kenneth Greiner and Rev. Fr. Francis Gluntz of Kuntztown as the of the mass.

Inter- will be in the'St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Shade Gap Friends may call at the Ott funer.ai Orbisonia at 7 p.n\. Sunday until the services on Monday. Rosary will be recited at the funeral home at- 8 p.m. Sunday waueatuite "Tourist Promotion i with James lodge Promotion Tuesday, 28, 4t 1:30 PiM.

WHVN Listen Tow "Let's Talk It Over 9 whea Homer Bechtel Homer Bechtel, of 306 East Second Street; Williams- bur died early yesterday, May 24, 1974 at the Blue Ridge Haven nursing home in Camp Hill, after an extended illness. He was born to Aaron 'K. and Elizabeth (Acker) Bechtel, January 22, 1890 in Woodbury Township, Blair County. He married Kathryn E. Renn on September 3, 1948 In Hunt- ingdoii by Rev.

H. H. Nye. Surviving, are children Owen D. of Harrisburg, Dr.

John of Potter sville N.J. and Fred of Lakemoht.Step-childrenDav- id Renn of Ithaca, N.Y. and Mrs. Mary Jane Dunn of Enola. He had 7 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

One sister also survives, Mrs. Alice Frye of Wiliiamsburg, RJ). His wife, preceded him in death in January 1974. The deceased was a member of the Church of the Brethren in lliamsbur g. He as also a member of the Juniata Lodge Np.

282 the Altoona Cbnsistry, Jaffa Temple and the Pennsylvania State Grange He was 4 the oldest living funeral director in Blair County; He spent "50 years in active service in the funeral profession. He was on the Board of Directors for the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Wiliiamsburg until it merged' with the Central National Bank in Claysburg. Funeral services will beheld at 2 p.m. Monday, May 27 at the Church of the Brethren in Wiliiamsburg with the Rev. Ira Lydic officiating.

Interment will be in the Fairview Cemetery in Martinsburg. Friends, mAy call at the Church of the Brethren iriWUi. lamsburg from 7 to 9 Sunday and from 1 to 2 p.m. on Monday. In lieu of flowers, contributions 'may be made to the Chur ch of the Brethren Memorial Fund, Arrangements are under he F.

Weaver luneraly home in Woodbury. NEW YORK (UPI) The only 1973 Sidney HUlman Award in the broadcasting field went to Paul Altmeyer, producer- writer of the Group (Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.) Urban America Unit documentary, "Freedom and Security: The Uncertain ance." HARR1SBURG sylvaftia's Justice trepaftfftent wants the state Siipfeme Cotrrf tor rule two eofltNfte'fSial tions ef the divofcl Taw vtofale the equal Rights Amendment to thedensCitutmn. Deputy Attorney General ka- thieen Larkln also asked the high court Thursday to rule tin- eonstltutlnal the state's old bas- tardy law, which is not in the new cHme cede, but affects sons convicted of bastardy Before last year, The Justice Department action is one 6f the first major tests of Pennsylvania's Equal Rights Amendment to the State Constitution, which is designed to eliminate sex discrimination in hundreds of areas. The court was asked to find Pennsylvania's bed a board divorce law, and provisions in the law that sometimes force men'to costs, alimony and expenses, unconstitutional. Bed and Board divorces are legal separations.

Justice Department said tlie 1 Superior Court in recent decisions in three cases found "the present language of the statutes to be constitutionally adequate," and claimed domestic relations are exempt from the equal rights amendment. The case before the Supreme Court is a consolidation of those three cases the Superior Court ruled upon one dealing with bed and board divorce, one with court costs and alimony and one with bastardy, "The Commonwealth urges that this court reject such lim- iMobile Homes, Double Modular Mobile Homes It. The Beautiful SDEALITY 4- uisAul 6 Thurs. thru ited and eactlonary iniefpreia- tloni afid find that the amend- misfit means clearly 'what it says; thi sex of the individual be a jUstintalfofl fof weuld be le diitiifiish the full impact of the Equal Rights Amendm ft (which; fepresents a developing concept that the sex of the individual can not be used as a determining factor IH allocating the law." the' Justice bepartment ask-. ed that the court change the language of the law so that men and women are clearly equal.

If the cdurt ent'ers such a-ruling, women would be liable for court c6sts and alimony In divorce proceedings the same way rrlen are currently, The state brief said the bastar- dy provision "imposes a penalty upon males for participating in an act, white not imposing any comparable penalty for females who have engaged in the same activity." Bastardy, under the old Crime Code, was a charge tied to fornication. Both a man and a woman could be charged with fornication, but the bastardy charge which resulted from conception during intercourse-applied only to men. Attorney Larkin Supreme Court, in its decision on the bastardy could either rule in the one case it was 'Considering, or issue a ruling that could affect paternity payments for anyone convicted of bastardy. DeFreeze Killed Self, Probe Shows Camilla Hall was the first to go. Donald DeFreeze, the Sym- I Liberation Army's "General Field Marshal the last.

Surrounded by the bodies of five of his SLA comrades, DeFreeze committed sucide in the flaming hideout; coroner Thomas Nguchi said Friday. I The FBI aid search for Patricia fiearsY, the kidnap victim who joined her SLA captors, and two other members, Emily and William Harris, still was concentrated in the Los Angeles area, But a spokesman said the three might have traveled far from the city in the week since they were last Noguchi recreated the last minutes in the lives of the six SLA members who died fighting police and FBI agents last week. Noguchi said he had never "in all my years as a coronerV seen such fanatacism as was displayed by the SLA, saying it was clear they chose to die rather than surrender; Three of them, unwounded, deliberately burned to death, he said. Not Drunk Or Drugged They were not drunk or drugged, he said. -Noguchi said his investigation painted this.picture;, Before the fire began, as, the fired 'at police from, the front windows of the house, Miss Hall, 29, died from a police bullet through the head.

She had no smoke in her lungs. i Nancy Ling Perry, 26, died next. 'Bullets ripped into her chest and back 1 cutting her spinal cord and puncturing her lungs. She died within minutes. The fire, which authorities earlier thought was started by police grenades, apparently was caused by one of the SLA dropping a Molotov.

cocktail, perhaps Mrs. Perry when she was hit. DeFreeze was wounded twice; in the waist area but (could still As the flames spread, gang, taking the bodies of Miss Hall and Mrs, Perry with them, fled to the rear of the house and dropped through the floor into a 20-inch high "jylawl space'Vbet- ween the floor and the ground; Firing through ventilation slits, they were forced to shoot "basically upward, so they did not hit said. Angela Atwood, 25, died of burns and smoke inhalation as she lay between the bodies of Miss Hall and Mrs. Perry in the southwestern corner of the 'house.

Willie Wolfe, 22, and Patricia "Mizmoon" Soltysik, 20, huddled in.the southeastern corner, with DeFreeze in the middle. Judging from thasmoke in their lungs, Wolfe and Miss Soltysik died first as the flames ate through the floorboards above them. The wounded DeFreeze, all his followers dead and himself choking on smoke, pressed his face close to the earth to gasp at the cooler air there, then put the two-inch barrel of a revolver against his right temple and fired the last shot of the battle through his brain, HUNTINGDON, PA. HH. ANSWERING SERVICE PHONE 643-0790 FRIDAY MTNMV PDAY Itf lack Union "Dusk to Dawn 11 all new color Blait Memdrial Hospital MAV24, ADMITCfiB Alberta Covert, pot, ieeiee Petefsbufg Mftflln Oubetz, Huntingdon JohnK, Saiamon, It ey Street, Mount Union i Steven LeeScott, al Drive, Mount Untofu Kay Veaeh, 816 Grawfotd Apartments.

Huntingdon, BiSCMARQED Patricia fifoom, SHade Eva Boozel, Star Route, Huntingdon. N6ra Chllcote, RockMil FUT. nace, William Davis, Saxton Harold Everts, Mount Union R.D, Ruth Porshey, Huntingdon Rt 3, Bonita Hall, James Creek Ronald Harkleroad, Mount Union. Charles Johnston! nellstown. Beverly McEwen, Taylor Highlands, Huntingdon.

Emma Mack, 710 MainStreet Saxton. Hulda Naugle, 6 Shirley Street, Mount Union. Clarie Park, Vickie Rinehart, Broad Top City. Ruth Ann Rohfer, 1037 Pike Street, Huntingdon. Russell Rowe, Mapleton RJ).

1. Vickie Snyd star Route 2, Orbisoriia. Births Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Detwiler 01 star Koute, Allensvile, are proud to announce 'the arrival of a girl May 24, 1974 in the J.C.

Blair Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mr. Jerry Brunt' baughof 1216 Liberty Street, Saxton, are proud to announce the birth of a son April 24, 1974 in J.C. Blair Memorial from page 1970 until his appointment and 1970 until his app as Clinton County Judge this year, he was with Saxton and Brown of Lock Haven; "He engaged in general practice with both firms.

Judge Brown is a member of "the Hearing Committee for District II of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Perm- -sylvania and belongs to the American, Pennsylvanian and Clinton County Bar Associations and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers' Association. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges, the National Council of Juvenile Court Jud- ges, the Kiwanis Club and the LaFayett? Lodge No. 19. He and his Carol have two children, Carson II, and Jason, D. The family res.

ides in Lock Haven, DIGNIFIED TRIO of white Pelicans at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo bask in the noonday surf but certainly don't appear relaxed despite their lazy respite from amusing visitors to the zoo's birdhouse, One Man Killed In 3-Car Collision Leonard Shope, 23,104 E. th Altoona, was killed last night in a three-car accident on East Sixth approximately one-half mile north of the Altoona City line. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene at p.m. by Blair County Deputy Coroner A. Paul Vandrew, who said death was caused by traumatic shock from massive head and internal injuries and a broken neck.

Shope became the 13th person to die on Blair County highways this year, and the third traffic fatality recorded this month. The victim was reported to have been one of the" drivers in the accident. The other drivers were identified as William H. enrich of 406 Fifth and James E. Ehredtbf313 E.

Sixth both of Altoona. Segregation Suit Filed By A AGP TUCSON, Ariz. (UPI) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Friday filed its first school segregation suit, in Arizona, charging district with racial discrimination. The NAACP filed suit in U.S. District asking for an injunction to force Tucson District One to implement measures in the coming school year to eliminate racial segregation in the schools, and to forbid all new school construction until a court approves an integration plan.

Partly Sunny Is Today's Forecast Skies across Pennsylvania are expected to be partly sunny to sunny today and Sunday, with temperatures in the 50's to low Ws today in the 60's and 70's, Sunday. Tonight Will bring partly cloudy to clear skies with lows in the 30's and some frost possible in colder mountain valleys. Ford Receives Copy Of New Book LANSING, Mich; (UPI) Vice President Gerald R. Ford Friday was given a copy of a yet-to-be "released biography entitled "Jerry Ford Up The book'was written by Booth Newspapers writer Bud Vestal and will be serialized in a berof newspapers. Vestal presented Ford with the book' in a picture-taking ceremony in the office of Gov.

William G.Milliken. whose lasting beauty permanently guaranteed by all members of the Barre Guild. BARRE! IGUILDJ Monuments 513-15 MifflinStreet Huntingdon 643--08J3, DANCE Sunday, May 26th 10'til? "The Fugitives" AMERICAN LEGION ALEXANDRIA 7:00 10:25 ft Sun-, 8:45 3:45 ALDINE THEATRE Saxton, Pa. Fri. Sat.

Sun. May 24 -25- 26 it Sat. Two Shows 7:00 9:00 Sunday, 1 Show Only, 7:45 A STORY FOR EVERY ONE WHO THINKS THEY CAN NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN. HARRISBURG (UPI) Approximately 28,000 pers received free blood pressure tests in the first 17 days'of a testing campaign by the sylvania Health Department, with JAMES CAAN ELIWALLACH LOGAN HOUSE Restaurant and Bar Route 305 Petersburg, Pa. Lunches Dinners Cocktails OPEN SUNDAY I p.m.

to 10 p.m. OPEN MEMORIAL DAY II a.m. to 12 p.m. Cold Beer To Go! Fnone: 669-9176 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY ARE DATE N' STEAK NIGHTS AT THE ARENA ARENA'S FAMOUS RIB EYE STEAK DINNER FOR TWO INCLUDING THE FABULOUS ARENA SALAD BAR QNIY SKIMONT Rt, 322, 1 Mile last Of ioaUburg.

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